After Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 took most of my gaming time away, I finally decided to finish Uncharted: Drakes Fortune after keeping it for a few months.
The game's graphics are definitely pretty but the experience itself is what I like most about this game. Sure, the plot of this game is unoriginal, shallow and silly but it's the thing that makes this game so wonderful. It's a game you can just play and enjoy without feeling heavy about it. If you don't get what I mean, try playing through the Metal Gear Series and think about all the questions raised in each release of the game. You feel stressed out just by thinking about everything that are left out of the plot of the game.
Playing Uncharted is like watching a Disney movie. You don't have to understand it but you just have to enjoy it. This coupled with a happy ending makes this a perfect game to cheer yourself up if you're a little depressed or just something to perfectly kill a weekend (in a good way). :)
Call me crazy but I was one of those who didn't play FF-X after hearing friends say that the ending is sad. Only after I knew that in FF-X2 Tidus and Yuna gets reunited that I played it. It's frustrating to play a 50+ hour RPG game, after the characters eat up into your feelings and you actually care about them, just to see the characters die or fall into misfortune.
The ending of Uncharted is perfect in a sense that you feel light and happy after finishing the game and it closes the plot completely leaving nothing for you to ponder about. After playing the game, you can just forget about the plot of the game and just feel happy.
So for the next Uncharted, here's a small withlist for Naughty Dog:
-keep the plot simple and enjoyable like this first game and don't leave unanswered questions regarding the plot. In short, keep it close ended.
-I want another happy ending. *sniff *sniff
